The UAE (United Arab Emirates) space agency launched its maiden mission to Mars in 2020, fewer than ten years after it was established. So, how did they do it?
On July 19, 2020, a rocket blasted off from Tanegashima, a small island in Japan’s south, a few months after a global pandemic had immobilized the earth.
On board was a small spaceship just over 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide, weighing about the same as a Ford Focus car. It had many important cameras and spectrometers on board for its upcoming mission, which would take more than 493 million km (306 million miles) from Earth. On top of its gold body was a big black radio antenna that would send its data across the vast, cold void of space to controllers sitting at their monitors…Read More
Source: California Gazette
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